The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates
within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a
public historian's tool kit; and exemplary examples of practice. It
views public history as a dynamic process combining historical
research and a wide range of work with and for the public, informed
by a conceptual context. The editors acknowledge the imprecision
bedeviling attempts to define public history, and use this book as
an opportunity to shape the field by taking a deliberately broad
view. They include professional historians who work outside the
academy in a range of institutions and sites, and those who are
politically committed to communicating history to the wide range of
audiences. This volume provides the information and inspiration
needed by a practitioner to succeed in the wide range of workplaces
that characterizes public history today, for university teachers of
public history to assist their students, and for working public
historians to keep up to date with recent research. This handbook
locates public history as a professional practice within an
intellectual framework that is increasingly transnational,
technological, and democratic. While the nation state remains the
primary means of identification, increased mobility and the digital
revolution have occasioned a much broader outlook and awareness of
the world beyond national borders. It addresses squarely the
tech-savvy, media-literate citizens of the world, the"digital
natives" of the twenty-first century, in a way that recognizes the
revolution in shared authority that has swept museum work, oral
history, and much of public history practice. This volume also
provides both currently practicing historians and those entering
the field a map for understanding the historical landscape of the
future: not just to the historiographical debates of the academy
but also the boom in commemoration and history outside the academy
evident in many countries since the 1990s, which now constitutes
the historical culture in each country. Public historians need to
understand both contexts, and to negotiate their implications for
questions of historical authority and the public historian's work.
The boom in popular history is characterized by a significant
increase in both making and consuming history in a range of
historical activities such as genealogy, family history, and
popular collecting; cultural tourism, historic sites, and memorial
museums; increased memorialization, both formal and informal, from
roadside memorials to state funded shrines and memorial Internet
sites; increased publication of historical novels, biographies, and
movies and TV series set in the past. Much of this, as well as a
vast array of new community cultural projects, has been facilitated
by the digital technologies that have increased the accessibility
of historical information, the democratization of practice, and the
demand for sharing authority.
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